Example Sentences

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My colleagues and I traveled across the impoverished district of Beed, which is home to many migrant sugar-cane workers.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2024

The black skeleton of a burnt-out chemical plant looms over the N2 motorway as it meanders through pale green sugar-cane fields just north of Durban.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2022

In 2012, he criticized a well-known Roman Catholic priest who had reported to the United States that the country’s sugar-cane workers were subjected to harsh and inhumane treatment.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Then she offered me a glass of sugar-cane juice to keep me healthy and hydrated.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019

Jolted from their sugar-cane sacking, barrels poking out, the ingredients of the picnic have spilled out across the floor of the trunk.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez